Steam client on the FTP

[]SK[]

Steam Client (584K)

http://play.game.net/Games/Download...fficial_patches/client/win32/steaminstall.exe

Steam Client w/ HL and CS (388Mb)
http://play.game.net/Games/Download...cial_patches/client/win32/steaminstall_cs.exe

Steam with Opposing Force (297Mb)

http://play.game.net/Games/Download...l_patches/client/win32/steaminstall_opfor.exe

Steam with TFC (279Mb)

http://play.game.net/Games/Download...ial_patches/client/win32/steaminstall_tfc.exe

Steam Full (723Mb)

http://play.game.net/Games/Download...al_patches/client/win32/steaminstall_full.exe

Steam with HalfLife (211Mb)

http://play.game.net/Games/Download...atches/client/win32/steaminstall_halflife.exe

Steam with Day of Defeat (396Mb)

http://play.game.net/Games/Download...ial_patches/client/win32/steaminstall_dod.exe

URL: www.steampowered.com

 

[]SK[]

Gah stupid software doesnt work!

http://www.clourd2.com/slash/steam2.gif

 

[Cdr]

hehe you haven't downloaded the virus have you? Apparently Valve put off the release because of DoS attacks and the net was spread with virus riddled versions of 'Steam'.

 

[evilmonkeh]

lol

 

[]SK[]

Well I dont know anyone that has managed to get a working game off of steam yet. It crashes when I click games on my install :|

 

[WPKenny]

the beta was a little temperamental for me but I got games working. I nearly finished HL1 again through it. It's nice to play it at 1600x1200.

 

[Cdr]

Isn't this meant to be non-beta?

 

[.z.]

I had Steam....worked fine for a bit, could play CS 1.6 and such. But after a bit of time it seemed to install itself again, so I had two installed copies of Steam on my hard drive. It all went downhill from there - crashes all the time. Eventually I just couldn't be bothered and uninstalled it...

(I CAN edit posts! I was clicking the one above....how stupid of me )

 

[Cdr]

Unfortunately it looks like you'll need Steam installed in order to play HL2 online (and any of its mods), so I really do hope they have something stable out by it's release.

 

[.z.]

Originally posted by Cdr
Unfortunately it looks like you'll need Steam installed in order to play HL2 online (and any of its mods), so I really do hope they have something stable out by it's release.

Valve force you to install Steam to play a game you've spent your hard earned pennies on? I thought they were the good guys...

 

[throdgrain]

Just for info, this is non beta official Half Life, you need it for CS TFC DoD or whatever.
Not a mention of it on the news page of BW, amazing considering its easily the most popular online game .
Everyone I know is trying to download, and only 2 people -who started at 7 am this morning- have got the new cs version.
Its a drama

 

[Will]

I think the news page may be broken, by the lack of updates.

 

[dysfunction]

Originally posted by Cdr
Unfortunately it looks like you'll need Steam installed in order to play HL2 online (and any of its mods), so I really do hope they have something stable out by it's release.

I'm sure a stable version will bundled with HL2 if its needed to play online games.

 

[throdgrain]

Its perfectly stable, just fucking slow :/

 

[.z.]

Wasn't stable when I used it.. :/

 

[Deadmanwalking]

Mine keeps going betwee not responsding for large amounts of time and doing very little. I click to play any of the games and it just sits there on "Preparing to play xxxx....."

gah

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

All day. I've been on steam.

Sigh

 

[.z.]

Originally posted by old.D0LLySh33p
All day. I've been on steam.

Sigh

Hehe, I know. I spent several days during the summer trying to get it to work...

 

[throdgrain]

You got to wait.
When it says preparing to play game, that means just that.
When its said that for about an hour, it will start downloading the new cs (or whatever)
Anything from 40 minutes to 5 hours later, it will be finished, and you can play :/
That not unstable, its just the servers are massively overloaded, and everything is taking large amounts of time.
If you're not really bothered, I'd wait till tomorrow. Or next week.

 

[Embattle]

I've never bothered with it tbh

 

[Deadmanwalking]

I did think as much Throddy. Bloody CS Skiddies i want to play NS!!

Or can i without steam?

 

[Will]

You can play without Steam for another 2 weeks.

 

[Deadmanwalking]

But but all my HL/NS shortcuts have gone

And my Half-Life folder is very very bare.

 

[throdgrain]

Lots of servers are going over to steam now. Our clan server has already . Im sure others will still be non-steam for a littlewhile though.
2 weeks is the maximum from what Im hearing though.

 

[Will]

Originally posted by Deadmanwalking.
But but all my HL/NS shortcuts have gone

And my Half-Life folder is very very bare.

Ahh, you've started to install...I have no idea, just could (drastic answer) kill it, uninstall it, and reinstall HL/NS.

 

[Gumbo]

Originally posted by Cdr
Unfortunately it looks like you'll need Steam installed in order to play HL2 online (and any of its mods), so I really do hope they have something stable out by it's release.

What's the panic? You've got until March anyway

 

[Ch3tan]

You will need steam to play HL and any of its mods that use online components. In two weeks time WON shuts down for good, and so nothing pre-steam will be able to authorise. So basically its Steam or nothing.

Thank you Throddy for being the only person to realise that the servers are shagged because of the amount of people trying to download the thing. Depending on what files you already have installed it can need to download a hell of a lot of stuff. Just wait a few days, there is no rush.

 

[.z.]

Why is WON shutting down?

And Steam is out of the beta stage now...?

 

[Ch3tan]

Yes. /me resists urge to point out the obvous in a troll like manner.

Steam is now final, Valve's content delivery system has launched, it has a far better game authorisation system, which should also help stop a few more hackers. WON was dated and probably cost them quite a bit of money to run.

 

[PR.]

I'll be interested to see if Steam turns in to a front end for the Half-Life(2) community offering maps etc...